jdmorrison@watcgl.UUCP (05/28/87)
- If you use ^X^F to find a directory, dired is run automatically.
- If, within dired, you hit "f" to find another directory, dired is
run again on that directory.
- Something like [[[ (Dired) ]]] appears on the mode line to show
the second level of nesting.
So, the question is: how do I exit the subdirectory to return to the
first directory, AND make the recursively called copy of dired go away?
This is a problem, because I have been using "^X k" to kill the nested
dired buffer, and though this *does* take me back to the first
directory, it leaves the nesting depth indicator in the mode line
at a depth of two. Eventually, after an hour or so has passed and
and I have visited files and directories all over the place, I get
the message "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth".
I'd appreciate any help! (And please mail responses -- I'll post
them if there is sufficient interest.)
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Joe Morrison; Computer Graphics Lab, University of Waterloo
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"The first fifteen million years -- they were the worst..."mpf@brillig.umd.edu (Martin Farach) (01/26/89)
I have a couple of questions about dired. Recently someone suggested a method for changing the name of backedup files. If you change the way files are backedup, is there a way to get dired to mark all backedup files the way it does now with ~? Also, if you set the dired-listing-switches to "-alF" then you get a * after executables, etc (yes, I know this is redundant since the information is already in there with a "-al" but it's alot easier to read a "*" than to read "wrx-rx-rx"). However, when you try to view or edit a file with a * you get a new file because it will try to load the file "file*" rather than "file". Is there an easy way to strip of the trailing characters from a -F listing? Thanks for your help, Martin Farach ******************************************************************************* * Martin Farach | * * University of Maryland | * * Department of Computer Science | * * College Park, Maryland 20742 | * * | * * also know as: | * * mpf@brillig.umd.edu | * *******************************************************************************
mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin) (01/26/89)
From article <MPF.89Jan25202354@brillig.umd.edu> (Martin Farach): > Recently someone suggested a method for changing the name of backedup > files. If you change the way files are backedup, is there a way to > get dired to mark all backedup files the way it does now with ~? Changing make-backup-file-name seems to do that, without need for further changes. -- Mike Coffin mike@arizona.edu Univ. of Ariz. Dept. of Comp. Sci. {allegra,cmcl2}!arizona!mike Tucson, AZ 85721 (602)621-2858